Complementary Medicine in Healthcare International Perspectives on Concepts and Normative Challenges, Alexander Kremling,Charlotte Buch,Jan Schildmann, Editör, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, ss.95-121, 2024
There is considerable uncertainty about how to obtain patient-informed consent for complementary and alternative medical (CAM) interventions. The issue of how to explain to the patient the expected benefits and possible risks of the intervention, what information will be relied upon and how to ensure that the patient can understand this seems problematic. Several strategies will be discussed in the article for informing the patient in two different situations: from the perspective of (a) the epistemological standards of conventional medicine, and (b) epistemological pluralism. My aim here is to clarify the problem regarding informed consent in CAM and draw a framework with various arguments to facilitate thinking about the possibility of informed consent being valid.